version (published under the title of History of Rome from the first
Punic War to the death of Constantine, by B. G. Niebuhr, in a series of
lectures Lond. 1844), that this number does not rest upon any direct
authority. Cic. _ad Att._ I, 14, 5, states the number of voters in the
senate in a certain affair to have been about 415, fifteen having voted
on one side, and on the other, _facile_ 400; from which we may safely
conclude that the sum total must have been larger. In the I. Maccab.
8, 15, at the end, therefore, of the sixth century, the number is
mentioned to have been 320; yet when we consider the other statements
which are made in that passage, we must not lay too much stress upon
it.--Germ. Edit.
[108] In 1827 Niebuhr expressed himself on this point in the following
manner:--
“That the result of his legislation could not have satisfied him,
was in the very nature of things, and therefore he who had shed so
much blood to get the government into his own hands, resigned the
dictatorship two years after he had been appointed to it, as he saw the
uselessness of his institutions, which he had established at the cost
of so many atrocities. This is the most natural way of accounting for
his resignation, which has been so much talked of: it was a mistake
of very judicious people, to hunt out reasons for it which were too
far-fetched.”--Germ. Edit.
[109] The contradiction of this passage with that in vol. I. p. 469, in
which Clitarchus is termed an _elegant_ writer, seems to be accounted
for by supposing that the expression “elegant” is in that place one
of disparagement, referring to Longin. c. 3 who calls him φλοιώδης
καὶ φυσῶν. Of Sisenna, Cicero says in _Brutus_ 64, _Hujus omnis
facultas ex historia ipsius perspici potest, quæ, cum facile vincat
omnes superiores, tum indicat tamen, quantum absit a summo, quamque
hoc genus scriptionis nondum sit satis Latinis literis illustratum_;
and _de Legg._ 1, 2.--_in historia puerile quoddam consectatur, ut
unum Clitarchum, neque præterea quemquam de Græcis legisse videatur_;
so that Niebuhr calls this _puerile_, this affected mannerism, the
_horridum_, inasmuch as it so greatly _a summo abest_.--Germ. Ed.
[110] See note in p. 292.
[111] See Biographical Notices of (_Lebensnachrichten über_) B. G.
Niebuhr II, p. 402.--Germ. Edit.
[112] A direct mention of the place is hardly to be found in Cicero;
but in a general way he commends the Sabines as _severissimi homines_,
_in Vatin._ 15, _ad Famil._ XV, 20.--Germ. Ed.
[113] Perhaps more correctly, Julius Salinator. Plutarch Sertor. c.
7.--Germ. Edit.
[114] _Histor._ III. in _Servius ad Virg._ Æn. I. 698.--Germ. Ed.
[115] It has been said that all the Roman gentile names, ended in
_-ius_; but in names like Cæcina, Vibena, Porsena, and others, the
termination _-na_ remained, even after the clan had become Roman
citizens. Ernesti, who had not perceived this, mistook Cæcina for a
_cognomen_, and sought for the name of the clan; but the inscriptions
confirm the fact of its being a gentile name.
[116] With the death of Sertorius, the lectures of 1826-7 are brought
to a conclusion.--Germ. Ed.
[117] More correctly, _five_.--Germ. Ed.
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Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations
in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other
spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
Italics are represented thus _italic_.